News

1. Talk schedule now available!

   The PyGotham 2023 schedule is now available. Join us for thirty presentations including keynotes, tech talks, and short films. Videos will be streamed on October 6th and 7th, beginning at 10:00AM each day with repeat showings at 6:00PM EDT (UTC-4:00).

   As always, PyGotham is a community effort. Thank you to everyone who proposed a talk, voted on talks, and signed up for the program committee.

2. Talk list now available!

   The PyGotham TV 2023 talk list is now available. It features 33 talks spread across October 6th and 7th.

3. Keynote Speaker: Reshama Shaikh

   Reshama Shaikh is a statistician/data scientist based in New York City. Reshama is the Director of Data Umbrella and an organizer for NYC PyLadies.

4. Keynote Speaker: Julian Berman

   Julian Berman is a software developer and open source software maintainer who currently serves as a Technical Lead, API Specifications at Postman, where he is graciously funded to work on open source projects, most notably the JSON Schema specification(s) and his implementation of them in Python.

5. Voting is Open through May 26

   Starting today, you can cast your votes for the short films and talks you want to see at this year’s conference. We will use this input to build the best schedule possible. Voting is open now through May 26th, anywhere on Earth. Thank you in advance for helping us build the conference schedule you want to see.

6. Call for Volunteers

   As we mentioned in our conference announcement, the PyGotham organizers are looking for new volunteers to join the team. If you’re interested in volunteering for a specific conference planning task or contributing as an organizer throughout the planning cycle, we invite you to join an info session with the team. We’ll share information about many of the organizer roles we have today and some we’d like to add in the future, and we’ll answer any questions you have about the work involved in making a conference like this one happen. We’ll be hosting two of these sessions this month: Tuesday, April 25th at 8:00PM EDT and Saturday, April 29th at 12:00PM EDT. To join, email volunteers@pygotham.org and mention which session works best for you, and we’ll respond with a calendar invite and video call link.

7. CFP Help Session Office Hours

   Are you interested in proposing a talk or short film to PyGotham TV 2023? Do you need a bit of extra help or feedback to complete your proposal? We’re here to help! Join the PyGotham organizing team to learn what goes into a good conference proposal and to get individualized feedback to make your CFP entry the best that it can be. We’ll be hosting two of these sessions this month: Tuesday, April 25th at 6:00PM EDT and Saturday, April 29th at 1:00PM EDT. To join, email program@pygotham.org and mention which session works best for you, and we’ll respond with a calendar invite and video call link.

8. The Call for Proposals is now open!

   The Call for Proposals is now open. Talk and film proposals are due by May 15, 2023.

9. Announcing PyGotham 2023

   We’re pleased to announce that PyGotham will take place online October 6th and 7th, 2023. The conference will feature two days of talks covering Python and the Python community.